[Frameworks] FrameWorks Digest, Vol 93, Issue 14

Wed Feb 14 06:03:01 UTC 2018

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>    1. Re: film scanner (Jean-Louis Seguin)
>    2. Re: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates (Jonathan Walley)
>    3. Re: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates (Jonathan Walley)
>    4. Re: Showchron editor (Scott Dorsey)
>    5. Re: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates (VERY
>       off-topic reply) (Fred Camper)
>    6. crystal sync super-8 (Pip Chodorov)
>    7. Re: crystal sync super-8 (Jeff Kreines)
>    8. Re: crystal sync super-8 (Jean-Louis Seguin)
>    9. Re: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates (VERY
>       off-topic reply) (Els van Riel)
>   10. Re: Experimental Screening Venues London (Kamila Kuc)
>   11. CCCB (Helga Fanderl)
>
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jean-Louis Seguin <bolextech at gmail.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:03:04 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] film scanner
> Could you please tell me more about your technician and the crystal sync
> circuit that he has devised.
>
> Thanks,
> Jean-Louis
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 11, 2018, at 5:45 AM, Pip Chodorov <frameworks at re-voir.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > . Our technician in Paris has made a tiny crystal sync circuit that will
> fit in the camera behind the speed dial that will keep the speed accurate
> to three decimal points.  The
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Walley <walleyj at denison.edu>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:25:29 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates
> Hello Roger,
>
> I’ve been thinking about sending this email for over a week now, ever
> since your show. I had to run out early, so I missed the Q+A, but saw
> everything else. I hadn’t seen the dance piece, which I thought was really
> great, and of course the new piece on e-commerce, which was depressing. The
> human race just isn’t going to make it, are we? Actually the one that’s
> really stuck with me was the Comic Sans video - I take your point, but I’l
> still thinking about it. Papyrus also seems to be a popular and
> popularly-hated font.
>
> I’ve been antisocial (not in the clinical sense, but still…), in a kind of
> self-imposed exile from most things academic and film-related. It’s a long
> story, and not a good one, so I’ll spare you. Suffice to say I’ve needed a
> break. Anyway, as the saying goes - it’s not you, it’s me.
>
> I know I missed the window for you and I to sit down and catch up prior to
> your tour, which I hope is going well. By the time you’re likely to be able
> to meet again it will be spring, which is usually better for me and my
> moods, and it really really would be good to get together.
>
> All best and sorry as always for being crappy at getting together.
> Jonathan
>
>
> > On Feb 3, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Beebe, Roger W. <beebe.77 at osu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I’m about to head out (again) on tour with a program of my (mostly)
> multi-projector films, and I thought I’d share the tour dates for the first
> leg, which covers much of the Southeastern US.  (Northeast leg begins in
> mid-March.)  If you find yourself in one of these cities, do come out & say
> hello.
> >
> > Feb 6: Knoxville: The Knoxville Museum of Art
> > Feb 7: Atlanta: Atlanta Contemporary, 7 pm
> > Feb 9: Tallahassee: 621 Gallery, 7:30 pm
> > Feb 11: Gainesville: The Wooly, 8 pm
> > Feb 12: Orlando: University of Central Florida, 7 pm
> > Feb 13: Tampa: The Black Box (University of Tampa), 8 pm
> > Feb 15: Jacksonville: Sun-Ray Cinema, 7 pm
> > Feb 17: Columbia: The Nickelodeon, 9:30 pm
> > Feb 18-19: Wilmington: UNC-W, TBD
> > Feb 21: Durham: Griffith Theater (Duke University), 7 pm
> > Feb 22: Richmond: Anderson Gallery (VCU), 5 pm
> > Feb 23: Baltimore: Gallery CA, 8 pm
> >
> > More info below, for those who want.
> >
> > Best,
> > Roger
> >
> >
> > For the first time since 2011, filmmaker/curator/professor Roger Beebe
> brings his touring film program to the East Coast in January 2018 for a
> 3-month, 3000-mile roadshow of a program of his multiple-projector
> performances.  The program will vary city to city, but will include
> several premieres of new works alongside some of his best-known projector
> performances (including the six-projector show-stopping “Last Light of a
> Dying Star”).  These works take on a range of strategies from formalist
> investigations of the materials of film to essayistic explorations of
> popular culture and a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men
> crying (“Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)”) and the
> politics of font choices (“The Comic Sans Video”) to Las Vegas suicides
> (“Money Changes Everything”) and the real spaces of the virtual economy
> (“Amazonia”).
> >
> > "[Beebe’s films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert
> Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic
> age whose Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and
> beauties of imperial America."
> > --David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly
> >
> > “Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts
> that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape.”
> > --Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
> >
> > Roger Beebe’s work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple projector
> performances that explore the world of found images and the "found"
> landscapes of late capitalism.  He has screened his films around the globe
> at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo
> Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance and
> the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The
> Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, and Los Angeles Filmforum among
> many other venues.  Beebe is also a film programmer:  he ran Flicker, a
> festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the
> founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video
> Festival from 2004-2014.  He is currently a Professor in the Department of
> Art at the Ohio State University.
> >
> > <soundfilm still 2.jpg>
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>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jonathan Walley <walleyj at denison.edu>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:33:12 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates
> Ha Ha! I used to heap scorn and mockery upon people who accidentally sent
> personal emails to listservs by incorrectly replying. But now I have made
> the same embarrassing gaffe! Oh, woe is me.
>
> Well, now everyone knows about my very high opinion of Roger Beebe’s work,
> which you absolutely should see if Roger comes to your town, as well as my
> personal anguish and agony - and I welcome any commiserating responses, as
> well as scorn and mockery. I could have pretended it was an intentionally
> post-modern “review” of Roger’s show, in the tradition of published letters
> to and from filmmakers and critics (Dear Stan Brakhage…), but I decided to
> be honest instead. But Roger, since it’s now public, you’re welcome to use
> my email in any and all publicity for your forthcoming programs.
>
> Sorry everyone for unwittingly - wittlessly - opening the grimy window
> onto my stupid problems.
> All best,
> Jonathan
>
>
> Dr. Jonathan Walley
> Associate Professor and Chair
> Department of Cinema
> Denison University
> walleyj at denison.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com>
> To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:24:12 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Showchron editor
> The answer is no.  Using ANY rotating-prism arrangement for video transfer
> is really not a good plan.
> --scott
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com>
> To: frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:31:37 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates
> (VERY off-topic reply)
>
> I have been staying away from "meta" comments on this list in recent
> years, but now I cannot resist. What follows is all seriously off-topic, so
> feel free to ignore.
>
> The only negative comment I can make to Jonathan is that none of the
> mistakenly sent personal emails over the years have even remotely measured
> up to the gentle, almost poetic love letter someone posted by mistake --
> someone who then vanished from the list.  We never did learn how far along
> the affair, or hoped-for affair, progressed, but I for one hope it
> blossomed into bliss.
>
> I will try to see a Beebe show when I can.
>
> But the other comment, to Jonathan and all, is that I have more than one
> friend who has reported strange depressions and other disconnections in the
> last year. And I have had to admit to myself that I am part of this too --
> how else to explain staying in bed most of some days, alternating between
> doing nothing and reading the news on my phone, when things i would enjoy
> much more, and actually believe in, beckon? And I have a diagnosis for us:
> we are depressed because the world is going to hell. Or as Jonathan put it,
> our civilization might not make it. The planet might not too.
>
> It is not just that "short-fingered vulgarian" at 1600 Pennsylvania
> Avenue; look at what is going on in Poland, Hungary, Turkey, the
> Philippines, and many other countries: just as bad, though mostly without
> the threat of nuclear holocaust.
>
> I have a theory. There was a drought in Syria a decade ago, causing huge
> migration to the cities, providing people with nothing much to do. Many
> fought in the coming civil war. There are many causes for droughts; climate
> change could be on contributor. Is much of the entire migrant crisis due to
> climate change? Given that Trump's election win was so narrow, it probably
> was; even though the decline of coal was not caused by climate-sensitive
> environmentalists, many voters thought it was. The unpredictable and
> surprising effects of climate change seem likely to me to cause populations
> to the rational thinking that is essential to democracy and seek out "Great
> Leaders," however hideous they might be. If these effects are happening
> now, with a sea level rise of less than a foot since 1900, I shudder to
> think of the result of the sea level rising only one foot from here,
> something that seems inevitable. There are many more effects besides
> flooding, including increasingly harsh weather extremes, such as massive
> storms, of which we have already seen a few.
>
> I sure hope I am wrong, that we will institute fixes for the climate
> (which will however require massive carbon-removal projects as well as an
> end to emissions) before it is too late, and that in a few years we will be
> seeing democracies progress again. But meanwhile the US is ruled by a
> would-be despot who thinks that the Democrats' failure to applaud his
> speech constitutes treason, also showing that they do not love their
> country very much (which, by the way, is not the same thing as treason).
> Applauding the leader's speech = loving one's country. I can think of other
> countries whose governments would claim that, but all are bad dictatorships.
>
> I cannot believe that even the rational do-gooder "good people" are mostly
> not acting on the massive threat climate change presents. Curing disease in
> Africa, as the Gates Foundation is doing, will make no difference in the
> face of this potential apocalypse.
>
> I have a short, somewhat related essay, titled *Trump, Bach, and Me*, at
> http://fredcamper.com/W/Bach.html in both print and audio form.
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
> On 2/11/2018 9:33 AM, Jonathan Walley wrote:
>
> Ha Ha! I used to heap scorn and mockery upon people who accidentally sent personal emails to listservs by incorrectly replying. But now I have made the same embarrassing gaffe! Oh, woe is me.
>
> Well, now everyone knows about my very high opinion of Roger Beebe’s work, which you absolutely should see if Roger comes to your town, as well as my personal anguish and agony - and I welcome any commiserating responses, as well as scorn and mockery. I could have pretended it was an intentionally post-modern “review” of Roger’s show, in the tradition of published letters to and from filmmakers and critics (Dear Stan Brakhage…), but I decided to be honest instead. But Roger, since it’s now public, you’re welcome to use my email in any and all publicity for your forthcoming programs.
>
> Sorry everyone for unwittingly - wittlessly - opening the grimy window onto my stupid problems.
> All best,
> Jonathan
>
>
> Dr. Jonathan Walley
> Associate Professor and Chair
> Department of Cinema
> Denison Universitywalleyj at denison.edu
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Pip Chodorov <frameworks at re-voir.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 01:03:57 +0100
> Subject: [Frameworks] crystal sync super-8
> Hi Jean-Louis,
>
> In December I saw offered on eBay a Nizo that had been modified for
> crystal sync a few years ago by TFG in Easthampton, CT, and I asked
> our resident technical expert in Paris, Christophe Goulard, if I
> should buy it. That modification requires a large box to be plugged
> into the side of the canera when you want it to run exactly at 24.
> Christophe has been fixing and modifying Nizos for years, such as
> adding a button to adjust the ASA for the new film stocks, or
> bypassing the need for the small round batteries for the light meter
> by wiring them to the AA pack. He is also modifying Bolex cameras,
> adding through the lens light meters, or motors; he is planning a way
> to replace the xenon bulbs in Eiki projectors with cool bright
> LEDs... He thought about the crystal sync problem and said, "don't
> buy it - it would be very easy to make that circuit myself."
>
> The actual crystal component is tiny and he has designed a circuit
> that can be printed on a small board less than an inch long that can
> sit inside the camera. The circuit will only work when the camera is
> set to 24FPS. He just has to cut the wire leading out of the speed
> dial at the 24fps position and solder in his circuit. It will be
> powered from the 9V battery pack with a transformer because it only
> needs 3V. It will check the speed two dozen times per frame, rather
> than once a frame as in the TFG modification. It will run at 24 point
> zero zero zero frames per second.
>
> He will offer this modification to your Nizo for 160 euros (unless
> your camera also needs some other revisions).
>
> We hope to offer some crystal sync cameras on our webshop soon.
> Christophe has been busy so we're down now to one S800 for sale but
> he has a series of Nizos that will be ready soon, and then he will
> start on the sync project, using an 801 macro.
>
> Keep in touch if you are interested,
> Pip
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 8:03 -0500 11/02/18, Jean-Louis Seguin wrote:
> >Could you please tell me more about your technician and the crystal
> >sync circuit that he has devised.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jeff Kreines <jeff at kinetta.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:27:01 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] crystal sync super-8
> We had this Nizo mod in 1973 at the MIT film section, but of course
> circuitry has gotten a lot smaller since then.  Christophe does nice work.
>
> Jeff Kreines
> Kinetta
> jeff at kinetta.com
> kinetta.com
>
> Sent from iPhone.
>
> > On Feb 11, 2018, at 6:03 PM, Pip Chodorov <frameworks at re-voir.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jean-Louis,
> >
> > In December I saw offered on eBay a Nizo that had been modified for
> crystal sync a few years ago by TFG in Easthampton, CT, and I asked our
> resident technical expert in Paris, Christophe Goulard, if I should buy it.
> That modification requires a large box to be plugged into the side of the
> canera when you want it to run exactly at 24. Christophe has been fixing
> and modifying Nizos for years, such as adding a button to adjust the ASA
> for the new film stocks, or bypassing the need for the small round
> batteries for the light meter by wiring them to the AA pack. He is also
> modifying Bolex cameras, adding through the lens light meters, or motors;
> he is planning a way to replace the xenon bulbs in Eiki projectors with
> cool bright LEDs... He thought about the crystal sync problem and said,
> "don't buy it - it would be very easy to make that circuit myself."
> >
> > The actual crystal component is tiny and he has designed a circuit that
> can be printed on a small board less than an inch long that can sit inside
> the camera. The circuit will only work when the camera is set to 24FPS. He
> just has to cut the wire leading out of the speed dial at the 24fps
> position and solder in his circuit. It will be powered from the 9V battery
> pack with a transformer because it only needs 3V. It will check the speed
> two dozen times per frame, rather than once a frame as in the TFG
> modification. It will run at 24 point zero zero zero frames per second.
> >
> > He will offer this modification to your Nizo for 160 euros (unless your
> camera also needs some other revisions).
> >
> > We hope to offer some crystal sync cameras on our webshop soon.
> Christophe has been busy so we're down now to one S800 for sale but he has
> a series of Nizos that will be ready soon, and then he will start on the
> sync project, using an 801 macro.
> >
> > Keep in touch if you are interested,
> > Pip
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 8:03 -0500 11/02/18, Jean-Louis Seguin wrote:
> >> Could you please tell me more about your technician and the crystal
> sync circuit that he has devised.
> > _______________________________________________
> > FrameWorks mailing list
> > FrameWorks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jean-Louis Seguin <bolextech at gmail.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:59:10 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] crystal sync super-8
> Pip, thank you for your detailed answer. It's great to see these efforts
> being made to improve these classic cameras with modern solutions.
>
> Jean-Louis
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 11, 2018, at 7:27 PM, Jeff Kreines <jeff at kinetta.com> wrote:
> >
> > We had this Nizo mod in 1973 at the MIT film section, but of course
> circuitry has gotten a lot smaller since then.  Christophe does nice work.
> >
> > Jeff Kreines
> > Kinetta
> > jeff at kinetta.com
> > kinetta.com
> >
> > Sent from iPhone.
> >
> >> On Feb 11, 2018, at 6:03 PM, Pip Chodorov <frameworks at re-voir.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Jean-Louis,
> >>
> >> In December I saw offered on eBay a Nizo that had been modified for
> crystal sync a few years ago by TFG in Easthampton, CT, and I asked our
> resident technical expert in Paris, Christophe Goulard, if I should buy it.
> That modification requires a large box to be plugged into the side of the
> canera when you want it to run exactly at 24. Christophe has been fixing
> and modifying Nizos for years, such as adding a button to adjust the ASA
> for the new film stocks, or bypassing the need for the small round
> batteries for the light meter by wiring them to the AA pack. He is also
> modifying Bolex cameras, adding through the lens light meters, or motors;
> he is planning a way to replace the xenon bulbs in Eiki projectors with
> cool bright LEDs... He thought about the crystal sync problem and said,
> "don't buy it - it would be very easy to make that circuit myself."
> >>
> >> The actual crystal component is tiny and he has designed a circuit that
> can be printed on a small board less than an inch long that can sit inside
> the camera. The circuit will only work when the camera is set to 24FPS. He
> just has to cut the wire leading out of the speed dial at the 24fps
> position and solder in his circuit. It will be powered from the 9V battery
> pack with a transformer because it only needs 3V. It will check the speed
> two dozen times per frame, rather than once a frame as in the TFG
> modification. It will run at 24 point zero zero zero frames per second.
> >>
> >> He will offer this modification to your Nizo for 160 euros (unless your
> camera also needs some other revisions).
> >>
> >> We hope to offer some crystal sync cameras on our webshop soon.
> Christophe has been busy so we're down now to one S800 for sale but he has
> a series of Nizos that will be ready soon, and then he will start on the
> sync project, using an 801 macro.
> >>
> >> Keep in touch if you are interested,
> >> Pip
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> At 8:03 -0500 11/02/18, Jean-Louis Seguin wrote:
> >>> Could you please tell me more about your technician and the crystal
> sync circuit that he has devised.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> FrameWorks mailing list
> >> FrameWorks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > FrameWorks mailing list
> > FrameWorks at jonasmekasfilms.com
> > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Els van Riel <mail at elsvanriel.be>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:05:57 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates
> (VERY off-topic reply)
> Thank you Fred for your essay!
>
> (winter here too, but our sky is blue today)
>
>
> Els van Riel
> Brussels
>
>
> On 11 Feb 2018, at 21:31, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com> wrote:
>
> I have been staying away from "meta" comments on this list in recent
> years, but now I cannot resist. What follows is all seriously off-topic, so
> feel free to ignore.
>
> The only negative comment I can make to Jonathan is that none of the
> mistakenly sent personal emails over the years have even remotely measured
> up to the gentle, almost poetic love letter someone posted by mistake --
> someone who then vanished from the list.  We never did learn how far along
> the affair, or hoped-for affair, progressed, but I for one hope it
> blossomed into bliss.
>
> I will try to see a Beebe show when I can.
>
> But the other comment, to Jonathan and all, is that I have more than one
> friend who has reported strange depressions and other disconnections in the
> last year. And I have had to admit to myself that I am part of this too --
> how else to explain staying in bed most of some days, alternating between
> doing nothing and reading the news on my phone, when things i would enjoy
> much more, and actually believe in, beckon? And I have a diagnosis for us:
> we are depressed because the world is going to hell. Or as Jonathan put it,
> our civilization might not make it. The planet might not too.
>
> It is not just that "short-fingered vulgarian" at 1600 Pennsylvania
> Avenue; look at what is going on in Poland, Hungary, Turkey, the
> Philippines, and many other countries: just as bad, though mostly without
> the threat of nuclear holocaust.
>
> I have a theory. There was a drought in Syria a decade ago, causing huge
> migration to the cities, providing people with nothing much to do. Many
> fought in the coming civil war. There are many causes for droughts; climate
> change could be on contributor. Is much of the entire migrant crisis due to
> climate change? Given that Trump's election win was so narrow, it probably
> was; even though the decline of coal was not caused by climate-sensitive
> environmentalists, many voters thought it was. The unpredictable and
> surprising effects of climate change seem likely to me to cause populations
> to the rational thinking that is essential to democracy and seek out "Great
> Leaders," however hideous they might be. If these effects are happening
> now, with a sea level rise of less than a foot since 1900, I shudder to
> think of the result of the sea level rising only one foot from here,
> something that seems inevitable. There are many more effects besides
> flooding, including increasingly harsh weather extremes, such as massive
> storms, of which we have already seen a few.
>
> I sure hope I am wrong, that we will institute fixes for the climate
> (which will however require massive carbon-removal projects as well as an
> end to emissions) before it is too late, and that in a few years we will be
> seeing democracies progress again. But meanwhile the US is ruled by a
> would-be despot who thinks that the Democrats' failure to applaud his
> speech constitutes treason, also showing that they do not love their
> country very much (which, by the way, is not the same thing as treason).
> Applauding the leader's speech = loving one's country. I can think of other
> countries whose governments would claim that, but all are bad dictatorships.
>
> I cannot believe that even the rational do-gooder "good people" are mostly
> not acting on the massive threat climate change presents. Curing disease in
> Africa, as the Gates Foundation is doing, will make no difference in the
> face of this potential apocalypse.
>
> I have a short, somewhat related essay, titled *Trump, Bach, and Me*, at
> http://fredcamper.com/W/Bach.html in both print and audio form.
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
> On 2/11/2018 9:33 AM, Jonathan Walley wrote:
>
> Ha Ha! I used to heap scorn and mockery upon people who accidentally sent personal emails to listservs by incorrectly replying. But now I have made the same embarrassing gaffe! Oh, woe is me.
>
> Well, now everyone knows about my very high opinion of Roger Beebe’s work, which you absolutely should see if Roger comes to your town, as well as my personal anguish and agony - and I welcome any commiserating responses, as well as scorn and mockery. I could have pretended it was an intentionally post-modern “review” of Roger’s show, in the tradition of published letters to and from filmmakers and critics (Dear Stan Brakhage…), but I decided to be honest instead. But Roger, since it’s now public, you’re welcome to use my email in any and all publicity for your forthcoming programs.
>
> Sorry everyone for unwittingly - wittlessly - opening the grimy window onto my stupid problems.
> All best,
> Jonathan
>
>
> Dr. Jonathan Walley
> Associate Professor and Chair
> Department of Cinema
> Denison Universitywalleyj at denison.edu
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kamila Kuc <kamila.kuc at googlemail.com>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:16:44 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Experimental Screening Venues London
> Hi Ann,
>
> We will be doing some screenings at the Horse Hospital end of May, we will
> have, hopefully Scott Stark and Reed O'Beirne's work. Keep in touch so we
> can send an invite when ready.
> Best,
> Kamila
>
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:02 AM, Ann Deborah Levy <
> adlevy at resonantimages.com> wrote:
>
>> I’m going to be spending some time in London late May/early June and
>> would like to find out about cinemas and alternative venues that screen
>> experimental work.
>>
>> Ann
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> --
>
> *Kamila Kuc, PhD, MFA, MA, BA(Hons)*
>
> Feature interview, *Peripheral ARTeries Contemporary Art Review
> <https://issuu.com/peripheralarteriesmagazine/docs/biennialedition>*
>
> *www.kamilakuc.com* <http://kamilakuc.com/>
>
> *www.disastersofpeace.com <http://www.disastersofpeace.com/>*
>
> New book: *Visions of Avant-Garde Film*
> <http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/film-studies/visions-of-avant-garde-film> (Indiana
> University Press)
>
> New film: *I Think You Should Come to America*
> <https://vimeo.com/210989888>
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Helga Fanderl <helga.fanderl at gmail.com>
> To: Vroni Schwegler <vroni.schwegler at gmx.de>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:30:47 +0100
> Subject: [Frameworks] CCCB
> Liebe Filmfreundinnen und Filmfreunde / chères et chers ami(e)s / dear
> film friends,
>
> ich freue mich, zwei Filmpräsentationen anzukündigen / cela me fait
> plaisir d’annoncer deux présentation de films / I am pleased to announce
> two film presentations
>
> Herzliche Grüße / best wishes / bien à vous,
>
> Helga
>
> THE CCCB’S cinema:
>
> Masterclass with Helga Fanderl and Helga Fanderl. Films 2000-2016
>
>
> http://xcentric.cccb.org/en/programas/fitxa/masterclass-with-helga-fanderl/228049
>
>
> http://xcentric.cccb.org/en/programas/fitxa/helga-fanderl-films-2000-2016/228043
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